Villars Basket (LNB) strengthened their roster with addition of 25-year old power forward Ludovic De Gottrau (194-91). It is actually his comeback to Villars as he has played here before. De Gottrau played recently at Fribourg Olympic (LNA). LNB will be definitely a better match and he can see more playing time. He helped them to win the Supercup. The last season De Gottrau played at Pully Basket where in 22 LNB games he recorded 7.4ppg, 3.1rpg, 1.5apg and 1.8spg. He contributed to his te... [read more]

Villars Basket (LNB) strengthened their roster with addition of 25-year old power forward Ludovic De Gottrau (194-91). It is actually his comeback to Villars as he has played here before. De Gottrau played recently at Fribourg Olympic (LNA). LNB will be definitely a better match and he can see more playing time. He helped them to win the Supercup. The last season De Gottrau played at Pully Basket where in 22 LNB games he recorded 7.4ppg, 3.1rpg, 1.5apg and 1.8spg. He contributed to his team ending the regular season as at the second position in the league. They also advanced to the league semifinals.

American Chris Jones (188-G-93) put on an extraordinary performance in the last round for Starwings and that's him to receive a Eurobasket.com Player of the Week award for round 8. The 23-year old guard had the game-high 24 points adding six rebounds and six assists for Starwings in his team's victory, helping them to beat Lugano Tigers (#10, 3-5) 64-56. Starwings is placed at 4th position in Swiss LNA. They would have been even better if they did not have these two lost games earlier in... [read more]

American Chris Jones (188-G-93) put on an extraordinary performance in the last round for Starwings and that's him to receive a Eurobasket.com Player of the Week award for round 8.The 23-year old guard had the game-high 24 points adding six rebounds and six assists for Starwings in his team's victory, helping them to beat Lugano Tigers (#10, 3-5) 64-56. Starwings is placed at 4th position in Swiss LNA. They would have been even better if they did not have these two lost games earlier in Regular Season. Starwings will need more victories to improve their 5-2 record. In the team's last game Jones had a remarkable 68.8% from 2-point range. He turned to be Starwings' top player in his first season with the team. Angelo State University graduate has very impressive stats this year. Jones is in league's top in points (6th best: 18.0ppg), assists (4th best: 4.9apg) and averages solid 2.4spg and 55.4% FGP.

The second most remarkable performance in last round's games was -year old American forward Sean Sheldon (209-F) of Winterthur. Sheldon impressed basketball fans with a double-double of 23 points and 14 rebounds. Bad luck as Winterthur lost that game 67-72 to the higher-ranked Swiss Central (#5, 5-2). Winterthur are still at the very bottom. 7 lost games are too many considering they did not win any game. Sheldon is a newcomer at Winterthur and it seems he did not have too much trouble to become one of team's leaders.

The third best performed player last round was American Chris Braswell (206-F-89) of Geneve Lions (#3). Braswell scored 26 points and grabbed eighteen rebounds (!!!). Despite Braswell's great performance Geneve Lions lost 80-83 to the lower-ranked Neuchatel (#7, 3-4). But his team cannot count on just a single shooter as he also needs help of the other teammates. The last thing Geneve Lions needs is to lose another game like this one. They lose more and more distance to the top teams. Their record is 5 victories and 2 lost games. Braswell has a great season in Switzerland. After only 7 games, he made it on the list of the league's leaders in rebounds with 9.3rpg (6th best).

The Player of the week is chosen based on efficiency calculation, but also including game result, importance of the game, if played recorded double-double/triple-double, etc.The efficiency formula is a combination of various formulas used by different basketball organizations/leagues. We got involved many basketball scouts and journalists to assure it's accuracy.The formula: 1.5*PTS + 3* (REB+AST+ST+BL-TO) - 2*BSAG - 4*PF + 3*PFRV + 4* (2FGPM+3FGPM) + 1.5*FTM - 3* (2FGPA-2FGPM) - 3* (3FGPA-3FGPM) - (FTA-FTM)

Lugano Tigers U23 (LNB) signed American forward Kendyl Grover (203). He just graduated from Adams St. College (NCAA2). He played 22 games where he had 11.5ppg, 7.0rpg and 1.0apg last season. As mentioned above Grover is just out of the college and it will be his first season as a pro. He played at the RMAC Tournament Semifinals in 2015. By Eurobasket Data Center Check also Complete Transfers List in Switzerland [read more]

Lugano Tigers U23 (LNB) signed American forward Kendyl Grover (203). He just graduated from Adams St. College (NCAA2). He played 22 games where he had 11.5ppg, 7.0rpg and 1.0apg last season.As mentioned above Grover is just out of the college and it will be his first season as a pro. He played at the RMAC Tournament Semifinals in 2015.

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